10 gal questions

I have a 10 gal. I'm not using for anything. I have excessive chaeto in my fuge, so I was thinking of putting some of the chaeto (with whatever pods come with it) into the 10 cal, with airstone, some kenya frags (which are littering my tank), a snail, and a hermit crab. Thought I might be able to grow out more pods, and use it as a kenya frag tank. I have dead-live rock piece and a few shells, decorations in there. With the small bio-load I'd have; would I need to run a filter? Does it sound like the bio-load would be fairly balanced? Thought I might throw in some carbon in a panti-hose. Any issues you folks can think of with this?